Screws Quotes - Page 6

• I got my tubes tied last fall, at age 45. . ... After 33 years or so, I struggled to gain control of my reproductive potential and its power over my destiny. Finally, instead of letting nature continue to screw around with me, at least in this one area I engineered a pre-emptive strike.

  Marion Winik

  Fall, Destiny, Years

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• If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do.

  Peter McWilliams

  Games, Giving, Screw Ups

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• The stigma of the prostitute is the badge of her identity. That is why the client goes to her. If he wanted someone without a stigma, he'd go and screw the lady next door.

  Camille Paglia

  Doors, Identity, Next

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• Look at, look, the Tea Partiers, who are controlling the Republican Party....Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What's, what does that, what underlines that? 'Screw the country. We're going to whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we're going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here... It is a racist thing.

  Morgan Freeman

  Country, Party, Men

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• When I die I want a child that never met me, to hear were I came from and what I accomplished and for him or her to live their life to the fullest and do what they were put on this world to do. No limitations, blowing past everybody's expectations. Screw whatever body thinks!

  Richard Cabral

  Children, Thinking, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn’t screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good.

  Kim Harrison

  Coffee, Screw Ups, Stuff

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• With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen--if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us.

  Stephen King

  Character, Screw Ups, Plot

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• I can let you in, Eva. I’m trying. But your first response when I screw up is to run away. You do it every time and I can’t stand feeling like any moment I’m going to do or say something wrong and you’re going to bolt.

  Sylvia Day

  Running, Feelings, Trying

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.182, Penguin

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• I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones.

  Kristin Hannah

  Loving You, Screw Ups, Might

  Kristin Hannah (2012). “Home Front: A Novel”, p.431, Macmillan

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• The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Next Steps, Rottweilers, Intimidation

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings”, p.1069, Vintage Canada

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• Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.

  Margaret Atwood

  Rain, Skins, Mouths

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• Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy...the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Idaho, People, Guy

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• Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You're not a bottle of Valium.

  Augusten Burroughs

  People, Fake, Positive Energy

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.17, Macmillan

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• It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.

  Susan Mallery

  Screw Ups, Okay

  FaceBook post by Susan Mallery from Feb 20, 2015

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• We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mistake, Moving, Perfect

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• A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working

  Lisa Loeb

  Song, Book, Voice

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• Every great business leader I've ever met, in addition to being very smart, very driven, they have this, 'Why not me? Screw it, I deserve it, let's go.' And if you don't have that, you can't achieve greatness.

  Donny Deutsch

  Smart, Greatness, Leader

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• Transformation doesn't have to be deep, dark and mysterious. If you screw up, fine - laugh at yourself, learn and move on.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Moving, Dark, Laughing

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• I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.

  Susane Colasanti

  Karma, Revenge, Screw Ups

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.124, Penguin

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• Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.

  Tracy Letts

  Screw Ups, Care, Please

  Tracy Letts (2010). “August”, p.70, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under Governor Quirinius - a local census, not one decreed by Caesar Augustus for the Empire as a whole - but it happened too late in 6 AD, long after Herod's death.

  Richard Dawkins

  Dating, Long, Religion

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• I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

  Anna Paquin

  Thinking, Trying, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

  Bob Lemon

  Funny, Baseball, Kids

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• I'm not a yeller. My theory is that no one goes out there trying to screw up.

  Amy Ruley

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• I think once I fail enough as a dad, I'll be looking for help wherever I can get it. I just need enough time to screw things up and then I'll start looking to TV dads for advice.

  Ty Burrell

  Fathers Day, Dad, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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